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Click to expand.They had a $9.95 trial last year and I bought it, it does a good screen based on their proprietary RSI that was pretty good, and I know a few folks from my local IBD meetup group that swear by it, but I do so many screens of my own I couldn't justify the $600+/yr fees. If I was short on time, I would more seriously consider it. Also it wasn't particularly Mac friendly. It is very different from the tout sheets, it does a nice analysis, but it does not outright pick stocks for you. I does call market bias as well (tells you if the day is setting up to be good for longs, shorts, or to stay on the sidelines). I find just subscribing to IBD to be more valuable overall. Hope that helps.
I know this reply is a few months later but there is not much on this forum for vectorvest, so I thought I would put my 2 cents in. I am a beginning trader, have been trading for about 2 years. I started with Vectorvest, quit for about 8 months and went back to it. I did not do well without it. I work full time and do not have the time to research stocks. Some of the stocks I have picked with Vectorvest have done fantastic, and later turned out to be picks by winning fund mangers that I read about in articles. I have read it is not geared for day trading or long term investing which I also agree.
I am a swing trader, and I have always made more than the $60 a month it costs, sometimes with only a couple trades a month. I have tried gorrilla trades (they tell you what and when to buy, no thinking required) and Reuters stock screener (you build your own screens), but Vectorvest is a whole different thing.
You use their proven screens or even tweak them more yourself, or build one of your own, and you make the decisions of what to buy. I love the analysis tools and the backtest you can run on any portfolio for almost any time period. All the loser stocks I have ever gotten stuck in, would have never been on a vectorvest list to buy. They provide tutorials on the website and there are local user groups to attend. My return on my investments with Vectorvest is about 100%. It would be more if I traded more regularly and if I bought 10 different stocks at a time but I don't have the 100k they recommend to start with.
I did turn 10k into 20k in one year buying and selling up to 3 stocks at a time. I can't complain about that. My experience with Vectorvest has taught me to pay attention to MARKET TIMING. I know all about those 'you can't time the market' pronouncements. Vectorvest has satisfied that argument to my complete satisfaction. There are probably better stock selection ideas elsewhere. I like ZACKS.
If you use Zacks #1s, with high Vectorvest RT and only go long when Vectorvest issues a CONFIRMED BUY it's hard to go wrong. I'm baffled by those who say it's overpriced or costly.
I'll tell you what's costly, loosing money! I hope this helps you. I started tinkering with a $45k portfolio last fall and by January of this year it was $35k. What a nice learning curve that was!
I started using VV in December '08 and was using it exclusively by March of this year. The same portfolio is now pushing $70k and is directly attributed to VV's screening and data culls. Vector is a fantastic tool, but you have to spend many^many hours playing with it and getting comfortable with output, doing backtests, etc. It won't suit everyone's style but it is also highly flexible to customize your search strategies.
It does have some drawbacks - e.g. Blackbox processing, potentially inaccurate backtest results (its a internal bug), and higher cost (compared to other systems). However - in the end it is worth $450/yr.
I started tinkering with a $45k portfolio last fall and by January of this year it was $35k. What a nice learning curve that was! I started using VV in December '08 and was using it exclusively by March of this year. The same portfolio is now pushing $70k and is directly attributed to VV's screening and data culls. Vector is a fantastic tool, but you have to spend many^many hours playing with it and getting comfortable with output, doing backtests, etc. It won't suit everyone's style but it is also highly flexible to customize your search strategies. It does have some drawbacks - e.g.
Blackbox processing, potentially inaccurate backtest results (its a internal bug), and higher cost (compared to other systems). However - in the end it is worth $450/yr. Click to expand.I use VV also, and find the ability to use your own criteria to generate searches to be very helpful, but giving it credit for a 100% gain in 3 months vs. A 20% loss in the previous period is a bit much.
The market as a whole has had a tremendous move up in the past couple of months, compared with a big move down in the previous period. Some of the gutsy calls that would have killed a portfolio from last fall through early this year, are the same ones that would make you a hero in the past couple of months. Enjoy it while you can, as the past couple of months is certainly not the norm. True enough, and to give credit where credit is due: The loses were entirely my own devising - VV had no input into those. As I gained a level of comfort with VV (say Jan - Feb this year), I put my strategies to use (entirely coincidently as it turned out), the first week of March. The strategy is highly volatile, but does have a net positive expectation. Depending over what period you measure; it could be +1.5% (long term), +6% (medium term), or +20% (near term) per week.
It doesn't take long to double your pot when the return is double-digit per week! The criteria if you want.
The strategy I use is a style of bottom-fishing (sim. To 'Jailbreak') which has been abundantly profitable since the end of last November. If only I could have been playing it since then! Which brings me to why I joined this forum. I do have some serious reservations about how VV undertakes backtesting. I will perhaps start a thread on the topic once I collect all my thoughts.
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Click to expand.VV is not a stock picking service at all, but rather a service that provides data on stocks and allows the user to construct 'ad hoc' reports of their own design. They do provide general interpretation of the markets, and their version of market timing indicators that have already been mentioned. For example, if one wanted a list of all optionable NASDAQ stocks trading within a range of $2 to $50, with a minimum volume of 100000 shares on any given day in the past 20 or so years, I don't know where else you would go. Perhaps this example does not mean much, but maybe a list of all stocks meeting the above criteria that have moved up at least 40% in the past month would be of more interest.